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I simply couldn’t believe it. The software developers building a new Minecraft game came to Stornoway! Not only is Minecraft a hugely popular video game, enabling players to build construct...Read More

The Laraich placenames and stories project, took a new direction with story and movement workshops at Sgoil nan Loch and Sgoil na Pairc. Led by Ariel Killick from the Independent State of Hap...Read More

Working on the Arora, Dementia Friendly Community project today and the workshop theme was loosely tweed, blether about boats and cows. Also, the residents in both the Isle of Lewis and the Isle of H...Read More

Working on the Arora Dementia Friendly Project today with the talented Mary Smith, her spinning wheel and her extensive wool craft kit, in a Stornoway care home. The tactile wool extravaganza in...Read More

If you were brought up on a croft, in the Hebrides in the 1960s and 70s, the moorland was very much part of your extended landscape. The panorama of lochs, hillocks, streams and their Gaelic names b...Read More

I visited the lovely Isle of Arran recently for the first time at short notice. The information leaflet in the B& B was interesting, indicating an area that gave recognition to its Gaelic pl...Read More

The Psalmboat project is centred on Loch Erisort, Lochs, Isle of Lewis. In 2008 a chance remark by Don Alasdair Smith Keose made to visual/ audio artist and community animateur Deirdre ni Mhathuna fr...Read More

On an Uig tour today, this area really is the jewel in the crown. We were at Camus Uig, Ardroil where the Uig /Lewis Chessmen were discovered c 1831 and discovered this wandering minstrel story...Read More

Several cruise ships have already berthed in Stornoway this summer and each and every tour to Harris is a scenic tour. Visitors to Tarbert, Harris are delighted to see the Hattersly Loom in...Read More

Blowing on the Embers by Magaidh Smith in the Isle of Lewis The Oidhche Challain custom of circling, in a sunwise direction, the fire in each home on the evening prior to 12th of January, the Old New ...Read More